Speak with an Accent do you?

[flandry84]

/\I LOVE that Don Sutherland/Ice road trucker Canadian accent.Very pleasing to the ear.

Myself,I come from County Clare(west coast of Ireland).The general accent is Very flat(ten men become tin min)but I don't think I'm quite that bad.
My daughters though,and all their schoolmates sound like a cross between the Olsen twins and the cast of Friends."OMG that is so,like,ANNOYING?"

 

[Deckerd]

RP accent here. I can mug it up into a really plummy accent when I want to play around a bit.

Though I do have a tendency to change "o" sound in words like London, onion, monster into a flatter "u" sound. I think it comes from my mother's accent (she was Greek), but I'm not sure. I have tried to get myself to pronounce them properly, but can't quite eradicate it totally. Still, it's less prominent than it used to be.

But you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious beautifully.

 

[Holdfast]

RP accent here. I can mug it up into a really plummy accent when I want to play around a bit.

Though I do have a tendency to change "o" sound in words like London, onion, monster into a flatter "u" sound. I think it comes from my mother's accent (she was Greek), but I'm not sure. I have tried to get myself to pronounce them properly, but can't quite eradicate it totally. Still, it's less prominent than it used to be.

But you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious beautifully.

Really? Thank you! I always thought that when I said it, the sound was something quite atrocious.

 

[May 20]

One of the quirks of being a military brat is the ability to be an accent chameleon. If I hear an accent for a little while, I can speak it mostly authentically. Until I get angry. The angrier I get, the more Southern I sound.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

RP accent here. I can mug it up into a really plummy accent when I want to play around a bit.

Though I do have a tendency to change "o" sound in words like London, onion, monster into a flatter "u" sound. I think it comes from my mother's accent (she was Greek), but I'm not sure. I have tried to get myself to pronounce them properly, but can't quite eradicate it totally. Still, it's less prominent than it used to be.

But you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious beautifully.

Really? Thank you! I always thought that when I said it, the sound was something quite atrocious.

Well, if you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious.



ZR, NOT an Inverness Caledonian Thistle fan.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Well, after growing up in the Philly burbs, and then spending the last 11 years in Ontario...my family thinks I sound Canadian, and Canadians think I sound funny and just can't place it.

Another poster said that the Philadelphia accent is tough for most people to place, so I assume that's why most people up here have difficulty figuring me out.

I cling to my native accent though. Every now and then at a restaurant, I ask for "a glass of wooder."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well, after growing up in the Philly burbs, and then spending the last 11 years in Ontario...my family thinks I sound Canadian, and Canadians think I sound funny and just can't place it.

Another poster said that the Philadelphia accent is tough for most people to place, so I assume that's why most people up here have difficulty figuring me out.

I cling to my native accent though. Every now and then at a restaurant, I ask for "a glass of wooder."

I have been preparing myself for when I visit Philly. I already know how I will order my cheesesteak: Provo, widdout.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Some people think I have an accent of some kind - born and raised in California, so I guess that's my accent. Not very noticeable, I'd say.

 

[Holdfast]

But you say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious beautifully.

Really? Thank you! I always thought that when I said it, the sound was something quite atrocious.

Well, if you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious.

I sometimes add some further flourishes and make it so ro-co-co-coscious!

(stage version gives me bonus points - booyah)

(OK, enough already - everyone) .... whoops, got our lines transposed!

 

[Cali]

I believe my accent could be referred to as "quite posh generic southern".

 

[MetalPants]

Decently Northern Texas accent for me. Not too thick, unless I'm drunk or extremely fatigued.

 

[DeVario]

I don't have an accent, at least I never knew I did. One time when I was in New Mexico, I was talking with one of my distant cousins who live there and he told me that I was definitely from California. I asked how he knew, and he said he could tell by my accent. I was like, "What accent?"
I don't know, do we Californians really have an accent, aside from the dopey "Valley Girl" one?

 

[TorontoTrekker]

So there is such a thing as Canadian accent? My wife (Canadian lived in Ontario all her life) denies she has an accent.

I hate to foster stereotypes, but if you've ever seen SCTV, the Mackenzie Brothers' accent isn't that much of an exaggeration, though it's kind of East Coast-ish.

I can tell when watching Battlestar Galactica that Michael Hogan, who plays Colonel Tigh, is Canadian. He sounds East Coast-ish to me as well, but he's actually from Kirkland Lake, which is in northern Ontario (and is where Alan Thicke is from, as well).

Well, after growing up in the Philly burbs, and then spending the last 11 years in Ontario...my family thinks I sound Canadian, and Canadians think I sound funny and just can't place it.

I'm not sure if I could pick your accent out as being from Philly, but I have a couple of friends from there and can definitely tell that they have some kind of accent that's different from that of my friends who are from Atlanta, L.A., Minneapolis or Boston.

 

[Eratta]

Non-descript, "International" accent. I don't have a real Chicago accent, despite being raised there.

 

[thestrangequark]

I have a Pacific Northwest accent, having grown up in Seattle. It's pretty generic standard American, but with a few quirks -- some specifics are the words roof, root, and bag, which I pronounce differently compared to most Americans. My mom says that living in Brooklyn for 8 years is taking its toll, and that I now say a few words -- forward -- was one of them, with a Brooklyn accent.

 

[Canadave]

So there is such a thing as Canadian accent? My wife (Canadian lived in Ontario all her life) denies she has an accent.

I hate to foster stereotypes, but if you've ever seen SCTV, the Mackenzie Brothers' accent isn't that much of an exaggeration, though it's kind of East Coast-ish.

Yeah, I'm always amazed when I encounter people with a Mackenzie Bros. accent. I find that a strong accent like that is pretty common in rural areas, though those of us that live in cities tends to have a much lighter version.

It's extremely easy for me to exaggerate my accent to the extreme, though, which I think just goes to show how accurate they were.

 

[iguana_tonante]

If we are talking about English, I speak it with a more than obvious Italian accent (or as I usually put it, I shpeakk-a likk-a thatt-a)

So do you sound like Captain Bertorelli?

I didn't know about the character, but after a quick search on youtube, I must confess that I find the guy hilarious, and quite accurate!
My accent is not as thick, but still very similar, my goodd-a friend-a!

 

[Braxton]

I grew up in Iowa, and as most Iowans will attest, we honestly believe we have no distinct accent. Especially compared to other midwesterners from Minnesooootah, Mizzourah, or Chicawgo.

That said, having not lived there for years, when I go back to visit I'm actually conscious of how I don't talk "that way" any more. So maybe there is something there to notice. Or there's nothing to notice. Either way.

I don't think I carry the 'o' in Minnesota but one person told me I do. But when she said it it sounded exactly the same as I said it and she was from Arizona. Perhaps it's the 'you betcha' that gives it away?

The south/southeast has the strongest accent I've ever heard though.

 

[Rÿcher]

Speak with an Accent do you?

How is accent a proper noun?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Speak with an Accent do you?

How is accent a proper noun?

JW of course refers to the Hyundai Accent. Me, I speak with a Renault Megane, personally. [Loooooooserrrr! - someone in a BMW]